Participants need to choose one of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Books...
Honor Books Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Conner by Larry Dane Brimner "In the nineteen fifties and early sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull' Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while Commissioner Connor fought for the status quo. Relying on court documents, police and FBI reports, newspapers, interviews, and photographs, author Larry Dane Brimner first covers each man's life and then brings them together to show how their confrontation brought about significant change to the southern city
Drawing from Memory by Allen Say "Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist."
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell "Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest , most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth."
Witches! : The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls
began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The
doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly
announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations
began. The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked
officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two
children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined
hundreds more unfolds in chilling detail in this young adult book by
award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer.
Honor Books
by Larry Dane Brimner
"In the nineteen fifties and early sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull' Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while Commissioner Connor fought for the status quo. Relying on court documents, police and FBI reports, newspapers, interviews, and photographs, author Larry Dane Brimner first covers each man's life and then brings them together to show how their confrontation brought about significant change to the southern city
Drawing from Memory
by Allen Say
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist."
The Elephant Scientist
by Caitlin O'Connell
"Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest , most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth."
Witches! : The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
by Rosalyn Schanzer
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls
began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The
doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly
announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations
began. The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked
officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two
children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined
hundreds more unfolds in chilling detail in this young adult book by
award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer.